{"product_id":"manzi-la-viticoltura-e-lenologia-1883","title":"La viticoltura e l'enologia presso i romani.","description":"\u003cp\u003e1883\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 8vo. Pp. 225, [1]\u003cbr\u003e\nRoma (Rome)\u003cbr\u003e\nEredi Botta\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn the original wrappers, with wear at the spine and minor loss there; the front wrapper is intact and legible. The paper is uniformly toned, consistent with age and stock quality, with light foxing throughout, more pronounced on the outer leaves, and some pages show light soiling at the outer margin from handling. No stamps, institutional marks, or ownership inscriptions are visible in the images provided. No restoration is reported. Internally sound.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOfficial agricultural monograph issued as number 67 of the Annali di Agricoltura, this study places Luigi Manzi as a compiler of Roman evidence for a modern technical competition rather than as a detached antiquary. He prepared it for the 1881 Concorso internazionale at Conegliano, a forum for vineyard tools, cellar apparatus, and distillation held at the Scuola di Viticoltura ed Enologia di Conegliano, founded in 1876. Its publication followed the endorsement of Giovanni Battista Cerletti, the competition's relatore generale and a leading Italian oenologist. The moment matters: post-Unification agricultural administration was trying to make Italian wine a modern national industry, and Manzi answers by testing Roman practice against contemporary viticulture. Ancient presses, vessels, diseases, remedies, clarifying agents, festivals, and cellar arrangements become technical evidence. Taken whole, the book is an official nineteenth-century reconstruction of Roman viticulture and oenology as usable agricultural knowledge.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe volume opens with Preliminari, setting Roman wine within Mediterranean agriculture and the legal economy of Pliny, Varro, and the Tavole di Eraclea. Chapter II turns to field equipment: aratro semplice, aratro composto, bidente, fossor, rastro, and vine training by pergola. Chapter III treats cultivation and disease, including urine, sea water, bitumen oil, vine ash with vinegar, oak bark, and the insertion of oak pegs into split trunks. Chapter IV follows the vendemmia through the vinalia rustica, the Flamen Diale, and the torculum, with the prelum, arbor, sucula, and funis torculum described as working parts. Chapter V reconstructs the cella vinaria and its vessels: dolium, amphora, culeus, lagena, and seria. Chapters VI-VIII move through wine festivals, named regional wines, adulteration, cervogia, aromatics, distillation, vinegar, conservation, sulphur dioxide, gesso, albumina, and dried blood. The strangest survival is the pissinon or pisselon apparatus, treated as a primitive still for drawing resin from cedar or pine. About forty illustrations, including coins, medals, Pompeian frescoes, Egyptian tomb scenes, reliefs, cellar arrangements, presses, and technical drawings, carry the ancient evidence into the text.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePatriotic Roman wine, argued by archaeology and science: Manzi enlists Pliny, Pompeii, and ancient presses to tell new Italy its wine identity was already two millennia old.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"La Fenice Antiquaria","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49385895067883,"sku":"183-1883--300.00-135.00-2026","price":300.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0766\/2000\/5611\/files\/00183_IMG_0069.jpg?v=1788993777","url":"https:\/\/fenicebooks.com\/products\/manzi-la-viticoltura-e-lenologia-1883","provider":"La Fenice Antiquaria","version":"1.0","type":"link"}